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Remember your sunblock, sunglasses, and hat when visiting the City Market!
Visiting the City Market is part of a healthy lifestyle, but remember to stay safe in the summer sun. Remember your sunblock, sunglasses, and hat when visiting the City Market! In time the City may see fit to provide a permanent location with a cover for the Charlottesville City Market, but until then stay safe…
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PLACEMAKING – the Charlottesville Downtown Mall is an important “third place”
… “What you’re seeing is further evidence of the demand to live in more urban, walkable, transit-friendly communities,” said Stewart Schwartz, director of the Coalition for Smarter Growth. “A big part of this is place-making — creating vibrant, interesting places where people can see each other and be seen. They’re what urbanists call third places.…
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Vinegar Hill Project Canning Cooperative – the SPIRIT of Charlottesville is alive at City Market!
Waste not, want not! I remember as a child going with my family in early morning to a nearby orchard to buy (at a very low price) a bushel of “culls” – peaches that had fallen from the tree during the night and were beginning to bruise making them unfit for sending to stores. We…
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Vinegar Hill Cafe will center our Charlottesville PLACE – Thanks, JABA!
Within the Jefferson School-adjacent to our senior community center-JABA is building the Vinegar Hill Café, a public gathering place for all ages, races and social backgrounds. The café will seat approximately 85 customers with indoor and outdoor seating. We will serve our senior clients as well as many others, such as tenants of the Jefferson…
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We feel loved and appreciated – Jackson-Via Volunteer Reception was so moving!
The Jackson-Via Volunteer Reception 2012 We truly value our PLACE in the Jackson-Via School community! Volunteers at Jackson-Via Elementary School were honored on Wednesday, May 23, with a beautiful reception. After introductory remarks by Principal Tracie Daniels, Pat Cuomo, Assistant Principal, presented a video of Jackson-Via students saying, “Thank you, volunteers!” in the always touching…
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OLLI at UVa gives seniors the opportunity to find like-minded friends
Charlottesville is a PLACE where seniors who have recently relocated to our area have an organization ready to help them find new like-minded friends for lifelong learning and an active social life. Some seniors have relocated to the Charlottesville area not just for the foliage or proximity to vineyards and other sights, but also for…
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